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02913aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 3701B8B080D111EC9CB8E34544ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220129010021 008 181130t20192018nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781250234667 020 $a 1250234662 035 $a (OCoLC)1076506427 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d CUS $d ZPP $d OCLCF $d WVU $d SILO 050 4 $a QP111.4 $b .J38 2019 100 1 $a Jauhar, Sandeep, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Heart : $b a history / $c Sandeep Jauhar. 250 $a First Picador Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c 2019. 300 $a 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue : CT scan -- Introduction : the engine of life -- Part I. Metaphor. A small heart -- Prime mover -- Part II. Machine. Clutch -- Dynamo -- Pump -- Nut -- Stress fractures -- Pipes -- Wires -- Generator -- Replacement parts -- Part III. Mystery. Vulnerable heart -- A mother's heart -- Compensatory pause. 520 $a For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world's first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient's circulatory system to a healthy donor's, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker--by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family's history of heart ailments and the patients he's treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself. --Publisher 650 0 $a Heart. 650 0 $a Heart $x Diseases. 650 0 $a Cardiology. 650 7 $a Cardiology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00847121 650 7 $a Heart. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00953493 650 7 $a Heart $x Diseases. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00953527 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220129011833.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3701B8B080D111EC9CB8E34544ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search